Combined mop and wringer



Jan. 23, 1923. 1,442,797 v P. DULLAARDT.

COMBINED MOP AND wRiNGER. FILED AUG. 5, I921.

Patented Jan. 23, 1923.

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PIETER DULLAABD'I, F UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS.

COMBINED MOP AND WIRING-ER.

Application filed August 5, 1921.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, Pmrnn DULLAARDT, merchant, a subject of the Queen of the Netherlands, residing at Utrecht, 25' Park straat, in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, have invented certain new and useful Tm provements in Combined Mops and VViingers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning floors by means of a mop cloth of the type comprising a handle, a socket adapted to receive one end of the handle, a wringing device carried by the handle, a plate pivotally connected to the socket, a mop holding frame fixed to said plate and a mop cloth connected to the wringing device.

The object of the present invention is the provision of an apparatus of this type, 20- wherein the mop cloth is connected to the wringing device in such a manner that it can easily be removed, and is held by the frame only during the mopping operation, so that the frame is not bent or distorted otherwise by the wringing of the mop cloth.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the character described in which the mop cloth may hang down freely from the wringing means or may be connected to a bucket handle, during the wringing operation.

The present invention consists of the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar numerals indicate the same parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention, showing the mop cloth in section. Figure 2 is a front view of the hook, by which the mop cloth is connected to the handle of a bucket. Figure 3 is a top plan view of the apparatus after removing the mop cloth. Figure 4 is a side view of a hook used instead of the hook illustrated in Figure 2 and pivotally mounted on the handle of a bucket.

The handle 1 is engaged in a ferrule or tubular socket extension 2, the latter being formed with spaced parallel cars 19 to which is pivotally connected a plate 3, the same bein formed with upturned ears 17 through whic are passed pivots 18, the same being Serial No. 490,061

also passed through the depending ears of the ferrule or socket extension.

Fixed to the plate 3 is a mopholder comprising a frame 4, the latter being formed preferably of wire bent in a suitable manner.

The wringing device comprises a crank handle 6 journaled in the lower part of the handle 1 and having a loop or yoke shaped mop-cloth receiving hook 5 at its rear end and an operating handle 20 at its opposite end.

The mop cloth according to the present invention is provided at the front end and at the rear end with loops 8.

By means of said loops the rear end is connected to the hook 5 of the wringing de vice and the front end to the hook 10 illus trated in Figure 2 and consisting of two spaced and U-shaped limbs 21 forming at one end an eye 23 and leaving at the other end a slot 22 between them for inserting the loops 8.

In this manner the mop cloth 7 is connected to the hooks 5 and 10 in such a way,

that although it cannot become unfastened,

it may easily be removed and turned either upside down or end-for-end for obtaining an equal wear and tear.

During the mopping of the floor the mop cloth 7 connected to the hook 5 and pro vided with the hook 10 is kept stretched by the frame a pressing upon it and by the hook 10 being placed upon the knob 20 of the crank handle 6, as illustrate-d in Figure 1.

After mopping the floor the hook 10 is removed from the knob 20 and by raising the frame, for example by bringing the handle 1 to a horizontal position the mop cloth 7 is made to hang down from the hook 5.

In this position the apparatus with the mop cloth hanging down from the wringing device is brought above the bucket and the mop cloth is washed out in the water contained in said bucket by moving the handle 1 up and down after lowering the same until it is submerged.

Subsequently to the washing the wringing takes place.

In order to achieve this operation the hook 10 is made to engage the handle of the bucket and then the handle 1 is raised until the mop cloth is stretched and the handle of the bucket is brought to a vertical position in which position the mop cloth is just above the centre of the bucket. The mop cloth is then wrung out by turning the crank handle 6, whereby the water freed therefrom. drops into the bucket.

Due to the loops 8 provided at the ends of the mop cloth 7, the same is wrung out over its whole length and a uniformly dried mop cloth is obtained.

All the operations mentioned above can be executed without manually handling the mop cloth, but it is necessary to lift the handle of the bucket in order to enable the book 10 to engage the same while at the same time maintaining the mop above the bucket.

This lifting of the bucket-handle can be avoided in the manner illustrated in Figure a, in which the loops 8 engage a ring 9 and in which, instead of the hook 10, a hook 11 is used, said book 11 being provided with a boss 14; pivotally mounted on the wooden grip 16 which is generally arranged on the middle of the bucket-handle 12. and provided with a cam 15 arranged in such a manner as to hold the hook 11 in an upwardly directed and inclined position when the handle 12 is resting upon the upper edge of the bucket 13.

What I claim is:

1. A mop comprising a plate, a frame carried thereby, a mop handle carrying said plate, a crank journaled in and extending through said handle and a mop-cloth connected at its opposite ends to the opposite ends of said crank and extending across said frame.

2. A mop comprising a plate, a frame carried thereby, a handle pivotally connected to said plate, a crank journaled in said handle and provided with a. loop at one end and an operating knob at the opposite end, a mop cloth connected at one end to said loop and extending across said frame, and means for detachably connecting the opposite end of said mop cloth to said knob.

3. A mop comprising a plate, a frame carried thereby, a mop handle carrying said plate. a mop wringing device carried by said handle and provided with an operating knob at one end, a mop cloth connected at one end to said wringing device and a hook removably connected to the opposite end of said mop cloth and adapted to be engaged to extend the mop cloth during the wringing operation, said hook being provided with an enlargement adapted to receive and engage the aforesaid knob to retain the mop cloth in extended relation over said frame during the mopping.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PIETER DULLAARDT.

lVitnesses J. H. Hunsi-rorr, A, DUPONT. 

